The announcement comes after weeks of speculation that another Texan — Energy Secretary Rick Perry — might land the post.
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Analysis: Why Texas Republicans hope 2018 won’t be like 1990
Texas Republicans busted through a Democratic wall in 1990, but only because their candidate in the big race that year came close enough to make other victories possible. Texas Democrats haven’t been able to get that close.
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Energy
Audit: Company behind Texas “clean coal” project used federal funds for liquor, limousines and lobbying
The U.S. Department of Energy’s inspector general says that a now-bankrupt company behind a defunct West Texas “clean coal” power plant spent more than $1.3 million in federal stimulus funds on things like spa service, alcohol, first-class travel and limousine services.
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Texas Elections 2018
Analysis: There’s a reason Texas governors keep failing to lower property taxes
Anguish over property taxes is at or near the top of the list of what politicians hear most often from Texans. This is not a complicated part of the civic compact: Voters are peeved. Politicians aim to please. Lowering taxes would make a politician popular with voters.
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Energy
Analysis: Would you hire these people?
The easiest way to judge public officials is the same way you judge the people where you work: Are they doing a good job?
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Energy
Rick Perry ties fossil fuel use to sexual assault prevention
Secretary of Energy Rick Perry said in an interview Thursday that increasing fossil fuel use could prevent sexual assault.
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Energy
Perry pursuing policy on coal, nuclear power at odds with Texas record
As multiple Texas coal plants wind down operations, U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry is pushing a widely decried proposal to subsidize coal and nuclear plants in the name of grid resiliency.
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Higher Education
Texas A&M Commerce offers $10,000 degree — but discourages freshmen from pursuing
At the urging of Gov. Rick Perry, Texas A&M University-Commerce developed an online degree program that can be completed for less than $10,000. So why doesn’t it want its freshmen to sign up?
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Politics
Report: Trump considering Perry for secretary of Homeland Security
A new report says Rick Perry is in consideration to lead the Department of Homeland Security.
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Politics
Rick Perry: “I totally support” Trump’s ban on transgender troops
“The idea that the American people need to be paying for these types of operations to change your sex is not very wise from a standpoint of economics,” U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry said during a stop in Waller, Texas, on Friday.
